We can’t build the nuclear plants fast enough: “At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Shell’s CEO announced the world demand for oil would outstrip supply within seven years.”
Archive for January, 2008
Saddam Bluffed, Didn’t Have But Wanted WMD
Posted by 25 Jan 2008, 12:54 pm in Iraq, Axis of Evil and WMD. 0 Comments George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate Saddam after his capture, will appear in his first television interview Sunday, 27 Jan at 7:00 PM ET on 60 Minutes. Some of what Piro had to say:
Piro spent almost seven months debriefing Saddam in a plan based on winning his confidence by convincing him […]
From Military.com: “…BAE Systems has delivered a functional, 32-megajoule Electro-Magnetic Laboratory Rail Gun (32-MJ LRG) to the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va., is exciting. Installation of the laboratory launcher is currently under way, and according to BAE, this is the first step toward the Navy’s goal of developing a tactical 64-megajoule […]
Where France is Right - Nuclear Power
Posted by 24 Jan 2008, 7:54 am in Energy and Science & Technology. 0 CommentsI’ve long been a fan of nuclear power over wasting petroleum energy on electric (hydroelectric and wind are fine, but don’t come anywhere close to meeting America’s power needs). This is not base on global warming concerns, but the fact that someday – despite new technologies for find and extracting it – oil will […]
Probably most email users today have multiple email accounts, the need to check email at different locations, and have tried various web email solutions like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. (there are others most of us haven’t heard of).
But the big two are Yahoo Mail and Gmail. Long time provider Yahoo Mail (not […]
Surprise! (not really) Guns Don’t Equal Crime
Posted by 8 Jan 2008, 1:25 pm Uncategorizedin . 0 Comments The Michigan experiment offers for surprises for those who favor permits to carry:
Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.
But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed have largely gone unfulfilled, according […]
From the NYT:
The anguished relationship between the military and the news media appears to be on the mend as battlefield successes from the troop increase in Iraq are reflected in more upbeat news coverage.
This implies that, due to the recent successes of the surge and related positive reporting by the media about it, […]